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Burlington, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Central Big Horn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82411. The Survey maps it on the Burlington quadrangle. 314 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,436 feet above sea level.

Burlington within Big Horn County

Population over time

2 figures

Burlington grew from 288 to 314 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010288
2020314+26 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Burlington between 1995 and 2020, burning about 411 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresWind River / Bighorn Basin DistrictBIG WINDY
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWind River / Bighorn Basin DistrictCOYOTE
7 September 2020Smoking50 acresBighorn CountyGRASS FIRE
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBighorn CountyB HILL BARROW DITCH FIRE
18 August 2011Natural16 acresWorland Field OfficeDRY CREEK
8 July 2018Natural5.0 acresBighorn CountyEMBLEM BENCH LIGHTNING STRIKE
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreCody Field OfficeTABLE
31 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined39 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 9 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBurlington$50,000no account filed
July 2015HailBurlington-Quarter sized hail was reported in Burlington.
June 2013HailBurlington-A trained spotter estimated penny sized hail in Burlington.
June 2013HailBurlington-Quarter sized hail fell in Burlington.
June 2010Funnel CloudBurlington-The public reported a funnel cloud with a thunderstorm west of Otto.
August 2009HailBurlington-Hail of quarter to half dollar size fell at a ranch southeast of Burlington.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Burlington-A tornado touched down 1.5 miles northwest of Burlington. The tornado moved east for 10 miles before dissipating 4 miles north of Otto. This tornado formed over open country without damage, therefore it was rated as F0.
June 2006HailBurlington-no account filed
June 2006HailBurlington-no account filed
June 2005HailBurlington-no account filed
August 2002HailBurlington-no account filed
August 2002HailBurlington-no account filed
August 1996LightningBurlington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Emblem4.6 miles7
Otto8.9 miles7
Hewitt Place14.7 miles7
Sales Place18.6 miles7
Greybull20.1 miles7
Basin21.4 miles7
Byron24.4 miles7
Lovell27.0 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BurlingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1029106The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597239. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.